Who Are The Sami?

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    In the frozen Far-North of Europe, beneath the Northern Lights, lies a land of snow, endless tundra, and dense forests. Where ancient languages and songs echo on the frigid air. Where majestic reindeer roam...majestically.
    Anyway...this is Sapmi, home of the Sami people. The indigenous people of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia's Kola Peninsula.
    Located mostly north of the Arctic circle, in Sapmi the sun disappears for months in the winter, and may never set in the summer. This is what midnight looks like in summer. For thousands of years the Sami have not only survived but thrived in this land of -30 degree celsius winters and midsummer snows.
    But who are the Sami, what is their story, and wizards...can they help you find your lost socks??? Well Let's Find Out!
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  • @CogitoEdu
    @CogitoEdu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +90

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    • @maeam
      @maeam 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hi!!

    • @shrekwithawillsmithface465
      @shrekwithawillsmithface465 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      E

    • @mehakpreetsinghsohi4428
      @mehakpreetsinghsohi4428 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I am requesting you from a long time please make a video on what is Christianity

    • @lijahsmum
      @lijahsmum 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I tried the link but got this error message:
      500: INTERNAL_SERVER_ERRORCode: FUNCTION_INVOCATION_FAILEDID: sfo1::24c5w-1614479551215-9f08cabc72df
      I love your videos and am interested in any future stuff you are involved in.

    • @IronpenWorldbuilding
      @IronpenWorldbuilding 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mooses might be more fun to say then moose, but meese, beats out them all. Lol

  • @1307
    @1307 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1075

    The erasure of saami culture and language by way of forcing the children into boarding schools reminds me of the residential schools founded in Canada in order to stamp out First Nations culture 😔

    • @christopherneelyakagoattmo6078
      @christopherneelyakagoattmo6078 3 ปีที่แล้ว +104

      This also happened where I grew up in southern Appalachia with the Muskogee Creek and Chicamauga Cherokee tribes through the 1950s.

    • @jonathan545
      @jonathan545 3 ปีที่แล้ว +105

      Same thing was happening in Australia with aborigines too, it’s devastating for culture

    • @maryammahdavi
      @maryammahdavi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      As Canadian, I agree with that emoji. Settlers back then were evil.

    • @jennyleung7533
      @jennyleung7533 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      It’s still happening to Uyghur people in China

    • @ajarofmayonnaise3250
      @ajarofmayonnaise3250 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@jennyleung7533 bruh they isn’t taught they are put in concentration camps to die

  • @Cosmiccoffeecup
    @Cosmiccoffeecup 3 ปีที่แล้ว +385

    The Yoik singer was so peaceful.

  • @ycasto1063
    @ycasto1063 3 ปีที่แล้ว +271

    Broke: Moose
    Woke: Mooses
    Ascended: M E E S E

    • @1leon000
      @1leon000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Gods: *_M E E C E_*_-_

    • @thedodobird1709
      @thedodobird1709 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Kratos: *_M I I S_*

    • @Arjibi
      @Arjibi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Jajabing: *_M E E S A_*

    • @cum3448
      @cum3448 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      saami:PORO

    • @fatpotato3512
      @fatpotato3512 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me: M E E Z

  • @Erikatharsis
    @Erikatharsis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +318

    Somebody's probably already pointed this out, but the modern Sámi flag doesn't represent a drum. It represents a sun-moon symbol that was often depicted on drums.
    Outside of that minor mistake, this is a top-tier video.

    • @TheMrPeteChannel
      @TheMrPeteChannel 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Also the first flag was unofficial.

  • @Jo-Heike
    @Jo-Heike ปีที่แล้ว +40

    As a Sami I found this video surprisingly accurate, and detailed, not that both couldn't have been improved.

    • @Kapteinpro
      @Kapteinpro 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      duohtavuohta

    • @Kapteinpro
      @Kapteinpro 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I am also a Sami. Sad thing is when my class is learning about our people, all the girls are disreapecting our people and all the boyse are speachless.

  • @zahando5420
    @zahando5420 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Thank you for making this video and educating the internet about my people. Eatnat áktet!

  • @datpiff2344
    @datpiff2344 2 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    My ancestors were sami and this is such a useful video, my great grandfather passed away before i could really talk to him about our finnish/semi ancestry. I just wish I could have wathed this video with him. I know he would have loved it.
    Thank you.

  • @Joseph-qd9ew
    @Joseph-qd9ew 3 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    I was just thinking yesterday “what if cogito did a video on the Sami” 😂 thanks cogito!

    • @CogitoEdu
      @CogitoEdu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      I sensed it and made this for you : D

    • @chrischilleen5131
      @chrischilleen5131 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@CogitoEdu Wizard O.O

  • @brandonhiraeth4537
    @brandonhiraeth4537 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    It's heartbreaking what the rich and powerful did to the tapestry of beautiful and diverse cultures of the world.

    • @siervodedios5952
      @siervodedios5952 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Eric Walls As well as alcoholism, disease, genocide, poverty, erasure of their culture and language, human trafficking, etc. All these has been done to not just the Sami, but also the Ainu of Japan; Native Americans and various other Indigenous Americans throughout North, Central, and South America, the Aboriginal Australians of well Australia, the Maori of New Zealand, etc.
      If you truly think this bs is good for these people than you're even more moronic than I thought.

  • @shinydas1767
    @shinydas1767 2 ปีที่แล้ว +223

    This video makes me so sad. I wish all of human race treated nature with respect, and didn't let greed get the better of us. Great video...loved learning about the Sami. Love from India.

    • @Doctor_Fate5
      @Doctor_Fate5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      You guys kill Adivasis in India

    • @shinydas1767
      @shinydas1767 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@Doctor_Fate5 yes we did, and I wish that didn't happen.

    • @Doctor_Fate5
      @Doctor_Fate5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@shinydas1767 it still happens whyyy

    • @Doctor_Fate5
      @Doctor_Fate5 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Giovanni Balbosa-Mc Intosh where are you from

    • @feargripper
      @feargripper 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@shinydas1767 this didn’t age well lmaooooooo

  • @valkeakirahvi
    @valkeakirahvi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +161

    Thank you for the video! I'm not Sámi, but I'm studying Sámi studies in the university, and I think this was resonably accurate, and raised many of the most important Sámi issues.

    • @pelayo341
      @pelayo341 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The state of it

    • @valkeakirahvi
      @valkeakirahvi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@pelayo341 What

    • @luringen947
      @luringen947 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Sami are not the indigenous people of Norway! Norwegians were already here 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, the Sami came much later, about 2,000 to 2,500 years ago.

    • @valkeakirahvi
      @valkeakirahvi ปีที่แล้ว

      @@luringen947 Lol. Norwegians didn't exist back then. Even Proto-Indo-Europeans didn't exist until 6500 years ago.

    • @luringen947
      @luringen947 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Norwegians come from two ethnic groups. one group came to Norway for approx. 12,000 years ago. and the other group came about 5,600 years ago. but the Sami did not arrive until 2000-2500 years ago. and mingled with us. you can just google and you will see.

  • @frostyalaska6371
    @frostyalaska6371 3 ปีที่แล้ว +308

    Please do a video on the Alaskan natives extremely under appreciated culture

    • @psycologo121
      @psycologo121 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Have you seen Molly of Denali

    • @gailism
      @gailism 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Are they different from Inuit in Canada?

    • @098saw
      @098saw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      There was a great little game called never alone that followed one of the Alaskan native peoples stories

    • @frostyalaska6371
      @frostyalaska6371 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@gailism Very different the brooks mountain range separated them completely the inupiaqs spoke a different language but are always called inuits. Theres many different groups do to the size all with there own unique languages and cultures. Do to the horrible atrocities of the boarding schools. almost all of our languages an cultures were destroyed by taking kids over the age of 5 and having the older kids beat the younger kids for speaking there native tounge since we were all oral cultures it just devasted our ability to keep our history alive. They even banned singing and dancing because it was how we memorized and kept our stories throughout the years. We dont even get compensation the "indians" in the lower 48 get 50 grand by age 21. Sorry for the long rant haha just passionate about my ancestors past wish it was known to more people, hopefully theyll make a video on it and teach more people about us.

    • @gailism
      @gailism 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@frostyalaska6371 Thank you for sharing! I have met some Inuit Canadians but did not know that there was much difference from Alaskan natives. Natives in Canada went through a very similar experience as the one you described. We had residential schools all across the country until the 1990s that tried to take away language and culture from the native people here. The government even killed sled dogs up north to stop people from moving around. Some people in Nunavut, Northwest Territories, and Yukon still speak Inuktitut though, and Cree is also widely spoken

  • @KellieSuttle
    @KellieSuttle ปีที่แล้ว +30

    "I know it's 'moose', but 'mooses' is more fun to say." Not all heroes wear capes. ❤

  • @just_a_turtle_chad
    @just_a_turtle_chad 3 ปีที่แล้ว +173

    *A turtle approves of the Sámi people*

    • @CogitoEdu
      @CogitoEdu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      And I approve of this turtle

    • @buzzthebuzzer6230
      @buzzthebuzzer6230 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Thanks turtle

    • @charlykatbat4468
      @charlykatbat4468 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      On behalf of the Sámi people, giitu =)

    • @charlykatbat4468
      @charlykatbat4468 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Kadir Garip on behalf of the people of the land, children of sun and wind, guardians of the reindeer - yes
      If you want to take the piss, do it properly.

    • @charlykatbat4468
      @charlykatbat4468 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Kadir Garip since most of us Sámi don't live in Sapmi anymore, we don't call ourselves "people of Sapmi" aka "people of the land" but just simply Sámi people (we're not one "tribe" given our different history, language, Gákti and culture)

  • @zsoltsandor3814
    @zsoltsandor3814 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    This is an exceptionally well put together video, absolutely high quality in all aspects. As a Hungarian with a special fondness for the Sámi people, I shall say: giitu.

    • @mysteriousDSF
      @mysteriousDSF ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, we should embrace our real origins than claiming to be Turkic or Iranic. Maybe Orbán is personally a Turkic-Iranic person but Hungarians aren't.

  • @maeam
    @maeam 3 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    Idk why, But TH-cam isn’t giving me notifications for y'all. Like this is the first upload i've seen since the history of tea.

    • @spongeboblover7052
      @spongeboblover7052 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      same problem

    • @jenelaina5665
      @jenelaina5665 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@spongeboblover7052 I got one for this one, but the first one in ages. Since Tea too, pretty sure.

    • @CogitoEdu
      @CogitoEdu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Thanks for letting me know. TH-cam is really bad at telling subscribers about their subscriptions

    • @jenelaina5665
      @jenelaina5665 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Ze Porg done that no dice

    • @maryammahdavi
      @maryammahdavi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same

  • @heathenfire
    @heathenfire 3 ปีที่แล้ว +132

    I come from the land of the ice and snow, from the land of the midnight sun where the hot springs flow

    • @jameskosusnik1102
      @jameskosusnik1102 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I come from a very similar land, Alaska the land of the midnight sun, our native cultures and their histories are very similar, sadly. Have a great day, blessed be.

    • @valkeakirahvi
      @valkeakirahvi 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Too bad all the springs are cold in Sápmi :D

    • @cheriann6461
      @cheriann6461 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      lol. Apparently not too many Led Zepplin fans, on this thread.

    • @heathenfire
      @heathenfire 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@cheriann6461 apparently not😅

    • @heathenfire
      @heathenfire 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jameskosusnik1102 hi I've never met anybody from Alaska. are you of native American descent?

  • @alexwall7204
    @alexwall7204 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    I particularly enjoyed the visuals this video, they were really well done! Thanks for the content as always, Cogito.
    There's a great museum section on the Sami in a museum (the Nordiska museum) in Stockholm, for those interested and visiting.

    • @charlykatbat4468
      @charlykatbat4468 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      yepp, and some beautiful stolen artifacts, that we Sámi are trying to return to their families.... colonialism...

    • @pelayo341
      @pelayo341 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Charly KatBat owned

    • @charlykatbat4468
      @charlykatbat4468 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pelayo341 ?

  • @Protoplanetary
    @Protoplanetary 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    it's important to note that "Sámi" as a language encompasses a large range of dialects, which each belong to a unique culture within the larger Sámi one. Northern Sámi is the most stable out of all of them, and is what most Sámi media is made in today

    • @david82633
      @david82633 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      There are 10 recognized languages aswell as the extinct ones spoken in Kemi and Kaiinu, and within each language there are many dialects

  • @Atlas_Uncharted
    @Atlas_Uncharted 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Otters are magical. Look at the way they hold onto each other. They show us the importance of community and looking after each other. Otters are great fishers and quite intelligent. Also I did a tiny bit of looking into it and the Sami saw their lives on both the land and on sea as a crossing of two worlds and connected that to shamanistic practice. Some Sami tamed otters to help with fishing. Also they are extremely cute.

  • @Sarah-bd1yr
    @Sarah-bd1yr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    If you are curious about how the Sámi language sounds, Frozen 2 has been dubbed in Sámi! There are videos of it available on youtube

    • @ChantelStays
      @ChantelStays 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Kristoff is Sami for sure

    • @alis.b.4631
      @alis.b.4631 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ChantelStays That honestly could be! Makes sense now.

  • @nebiru00
    @nebiru00 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    This is so nice. Other history channel's pick apart the Mediterranean but when they get to this part of the world it's like " Then some scary sailors came from here and wrecked stuff, anyway here's wonderwall".

    • @CJBroonie
      @CJBroonie ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Someone watches oversimplified!

  • @anterb2540
    @anterb2540 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    this is a pretty good introduction to the sami people, its the best english video i have found so far on YT, good work!

  • @djamelben9221
    @djamelben9221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    10:48 i never knew i would want to marry a voice
    seriously though all my respect to the saami people and hope that you keep fighting for you culture without any casualty
    _an amazigh man

  • @takdangkasaysayan9098
    @takdangkasaysayan9098 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I do remember this from Frozen. I am proud that Frozen represents the Sami people as well.

  • @kramp154
    @kramp154 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Thankyou so much, whenever you two make a video it really is a gift

    • @kramp154
      @kramp154 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cogito im sorry to ask but no nebula commentary?

    • @CogitoEdu
      @CogitoEdu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The commentaries have stopped for now because we haven't had a good recording space. We're setting something new up at the minute :)

    • @kramp154
      @kramp154 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@CogitoEdu ok thankyou, they are definitely the highlight on the site, and so fun, take your time and thankyou for all you do, love the origins of peoples and things series,

  • @emenefer
    @emenefer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    I'm thankful for content creators like you. I'm fascinated by indigenous peoples' culture but far too lazy to do the research.

    • @grizzlybearkid3265
      @grizzlybearkid3265 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      i encourage you to put in the effort! it's the least we can do living in a colonized world

    • @CogitoEdu
      @CogitoEdu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Happy to help people learn about indigenous people. Most people wouldn't bother to even watch a video, so you're not lazy :)

    • @pas-giaw6055
      @pas-giaw6055 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I agree with all of the people, every one liked

    • @emenefer
      @emenefer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@grizzlybearkid3265 I think my best effort was checking out the museum of anthropology in Dumaguete. Although even my own folks don't have all the pieces to their own past.

    • @copeandseethe9279
      @copeandseethe9279 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@grizzlybearkid3265 the Sami were not colonised. Nords existed before they did.

  • @SweetLilWren
    @SweetLilWren 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Wow!
    Absolutely fascinating, I had never heard of these people I'm so happy that I found your video this was just so frikkin great!!

    • @CogitoEdu
      @CogitoEdu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Glad you enjoyed!

  • @anxiousfoodperson8116
    @anxiousfoodperson8116 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I was so sure yoiks was just Cogito saying yikes in an Irish accent

  • @Aeyekay0
    @Aeyekay0 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That was a really well done video, I knew a little bit about the Sami but now I feel very educated. Good work

  • @transamgal9
    @transamgal9 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yeah!!!!! Always a good day when you upload.💝💞

  • @TravisSelassieSimbawafedha
    @TravisSelassieSimbawafedha 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    400th like ... and Yes Young Blood Otters are truly amazing ... in some of the tribes of the Iroquois Confederation the story of how soil came to be so the first person could plant the tree of life . The Tuscarora ( the People of the Hemp) tell wonderful stories of the Otter. Part of my family is Scandinavian/Sámi genetically, many blessings upon you for this video.

  • @heavenly2k
    @heavenly2k 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    These videos are something special. Never voyeuristic, just wanting to learn about and respect others. I love it.

  • @scottbruner9987
    @scottbruner9987 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I looked up some more Yoiks o TH-cam. Absolutely beautiful!
    Thanks Cogito, for introducing me to a new form of entertainment.

  • @D0ugh.B0y
    @D0ugh.B0y 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love your context. Great work, brother!

  • @GreasyFox
    @GreasyFox 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The eradication of Sami culture is a dark spot in the history of Scandinavia.

    • @SveinJohnnyFedje
      @SveinJohnnyFedje ปีที่แล้ว

      Blame Christianity. The same was done to Scandinavians between 900-1000bc.

  • @Kurtizss
    @Kurtizss 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Saami Culture in 9th-19th Century: Stop please!!
    Saami Culture in 20th-21st Century: *The Future is now old man*

  • @d34710
    @d34710 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for doing this ❤️❤️

  • @2010stoof
    @2010stoof 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Learning a whole lot on your channel. Things I never knew about

  • @evropatsar4282
    @evropatsar4282 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Please do a video on the Iroquois confederacy, they are an amazing people, also loved this video

  • @jameskosusnik1102
    @jameskosusnik1102 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Thank you for doing this video Cogito, My home of Alaska, unfortunately its natives share a similar history from both the russians and Americans. Good video Cogito and greetings from Anchorage, Alaska.

    • @CogitoEdu
      @CogitoEdu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Interesting fact, the USA imported Sami into Alaska to teach the native Alaskans how to heard reindeer

    • @jameskosusnik1102
      @jameskosusnik1102 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@CogitoEdu Thats so cool 😎. Although I believe I've heard of it but it was in elementary school, I think. Sometime when I was a kid. Could you also do a history of Alaska video as well?

    • @jameskosusnik1102
      @jameskosusnik1102 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@CogitoEdu also you should try reindeer sausage if you come to alaska Cogito, its amazing

    • @SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath
      @SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The major difference is that the Sami are technically not even indigenous to Europe. They migrated west into northern Scandinavia from Siberia just a couple thousand years ago. Hence why they have Asiatic features. The majority population of Scandinavia today, the Nordic people who are descendants of Vikings, are the indigenous people of the region.

    • @mehmetcanoner7897
      @mehmetcanoner7897 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath Same with Indo European groups. IE people came from north caucasus to euro,assimilated entire old european groups.Almost no people of eurasia is actually native to nowhere.

  • @IKEMENOsakaman
    @IKEMENOsakaman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I didn't know about this. Thanks for the info!

  • @eacalvert
    @eacalvert 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Another awesome video 😁

  • @lucasruault666
    @lucasruault666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I prefer the plurals “ Meece” or “Moosi” for Moose .

  • @DasIllu
    @DasIllu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Goose - Geese
    Moose - Meese
    The more you know.

  • @spaceyofficial.0127
    @spaceyofficial.0127 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I just learnt something new and I will be looking more into this to be educated thank you 🙌🏾

  • @sisenor4091
    @sisenor4091 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I just love this video. Funny and very respectful.

  • @beiko9279
    @beiko9279 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    THANK YOU!!!

  • @mariammontaser7843
    @mariammontaser7843 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    it'd be awesome if you did a video on the inuit next :)

  • @keithharrell2796
    @keithharrell2796 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is a very well done video.

  • @hermit7903
    @hermit7903 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video!

  • @chavamara
    @chavamara 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I documented a series of slides covering a research expedition among the Sapmi people for the Bata Shoe Museum a few years back! Glad to learn a bit more about them now. :)

  • @charlykatbat4468
    @charlykatbat4468 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    I have to admit, I first was very sceptic about your video. I always am, when it comes to my people, as sadly a lot usually gets sugar coated, not to offend modern Swedish or Norwegian ears. And although I (surprisingly) widely agree with your video, there is one thing I'd like to add. In Sweden, we're still legally a "foreign minority", so we're not seen as the indigenous people of northern Sweden (at least as a legal status), and sadly also in a lot of people's heads, we're still just "stupid, smelly reindeer herders". But as you said yourself, we Sámi have time on our side, and we know how to wait. Mus lea sáme siellu!

    • @pelayo341
      @pelayo341 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Go back to asia

    • @charlykatbat4468
      @charlykatbat4468 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@pelayo341 Dude, I'm European. Doavki!

    • @ANTSEMUT1
      @ANTSEMUT1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@pelayo341 you do realise that only 20%-15 of the Sami people's dna is of "recent" asian origin.

    • @lemonlemonade9497
      @lemonlemonade9497 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@pelayo341 shut up they are European

    • @lemonlemonade9497
      @lemonlemonade9497 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@charlykatbat4468 don't listen to those people. They are probably from USA trying to divide us more like they did to themselves. You guys are Europeans and natives as much like others. We came from the same hunter gatherers anwyas. We just mixed with different people.

  • @srikanthsidd9959
    @srikanthsidd9959 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome video! 😉😊

  • @liezelvevang5306
    @liezelvevang5306 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I love Sami people remind me of the Philippines indigenous people called Aeta that have been through so much tough times in there own land😞❤️

  • @ap9893
    @ap9893 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The art, the subject, the educational value on this video was *chef's kisses* Thank you for this video!I had never heard of these indigenous peoples before.

  • @Artur_M.
    @Artur_M. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Your 'Peoples' videos are my favourite.
    Anyway, time to listen to some Yoik bangers.

    • @CogitoEdu
      @CogitoEdu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yoiks bangers are my new favourite genre of music. They make everything sound epic

    • @JixieDye
      @JixieDye 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@CogitoEdu I was glad you put Keiino in there and Frozen, both my favourite Yoik/Joiks and was glad to see new ones too!

  • @luislozano6073
    @luislozano6073 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this videos about people, thanks

  • @parveendosanjh7195
    @parveendosanjh7195 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    So greatully receiving you wisdom xxx

  • @jeostone5255
    @jeostone5255 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Dude you editing is just so good.

    • @CogitoEdu
      @CogitoEdu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you :D

    • @jeostone5255
      @jeostone5255 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@CogitoEdu hey, if you don't mind, It would be great for you to make a skillshare class. It could earn you some pocket money, and for people who are starting youtube like me, it would be great to have lessons from the best. Thanks!

  • @abthedragon4921
    @abthedragon4921 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I had a feeling these people would be next.
    Fascinating culture

  • @HoH
    @HoH 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I had to go to your channel and open this video through your videos tab to get here. I'll leave a comment for the algorithm. Very frustrating I can imagine.

    • @CogitoEdu
      @CogitoEdu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you :)

  • @andythedishwasher1117
    @andythedishwasher1117 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Lol I loved your depiction of "buying wind".

  • @LodiJP
    @LodiJP 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I thought I knew about the Sami... but this video was WAY more in-depth than I thought! Learnt loads!

  • @tateoien871
    @tateoien871 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Been waiting to see you cover this! Love your content, you inspired me to check our Sikhi for a time. Would you consider doing an episode on the Assyrian people, culture, religion, etc? That's another cultural group that I find utterly fascinating.

  • @deborahdanhauer8525
    @deborahdanhauer8525 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent!😊🐝❤

  • @aaronsaunders6974
    @aaronsaunders6974 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    such a great series

  • @miriamzajfman4305
    @miriamzajfman4305 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Yoiks - a truly beautiful sound 👍

  • @AmbientFocusAudio
    @AmbientFocusAudio 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Just saw this on Nebula, very good - and amusing in a delightfully silly way. 🙃 It's a sad state of affairs that I, as a Swedish citizen from birth, learned more about our indigenous population from an Irishman in a half-hour video on the internet than in 36 years of life. I only really knew they herd reindeer (didn't know they used to hunt), that colonialism went about as well for them as for the natives across the Arctic, that we committed cultural genocide through forced assimilation of their children like Britain/Canada did to the Inuit and First Nations, and the forced sterilisation. And the parliament and TV/radio programmes of course - pretty feeble as reparations go.
    Like all Christian peoples (I reckon the Christ dude in that word might take issue with that), ours is a history of unbelievable hypocrisy - right up until recent times. We should be teaching this history in schools from a very early age - we are no better than the British, French or Spanish, we too have exploited, persecuted and murdered people on the native lands which we have stolen from them. As we see the precursors to genocide falling into place all over Europe, we need to be teaching about ALL colonialism in EVERY part of the world from the perspective of the colonised here as in all majority-white countries, but we should start at home!
    I knew very little or next to nothing beyond "they worship nature and stuff", knew about yoik but not its significance, knew there was some sort of shamanistic thing going on, heard of the creation myth. And I love Lapphundar! One of the oldest and most intelligent dog breeds, and total little charmers. They need a ton of exercise and activity though, so I think I'll have to do without their company.
    Anyway, thanks, great vid.

    • @shadrichardson6627
      @shadrichardson6627 ปีที่แล้ว

      My family escaped to America in 1898 and I think I understand why now.

  • @Davlavi
    @Davlavi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    very cool thanks

  • @donovan5656
    @donovan5656 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    They seemed so chill. Literally.

  • @dominiccummings1893
    @dominiccummings1893 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Hail to the otters!

    • @oddmahttesara773
      @oddmahttesara773 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You’re going love the fact that there’s a small village which is called: the otter

  • @sparksi2519
    @sparksi2519 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Weird. Im Finnish and learned a whole lot from this. I mean what I knew beforehand can be summed up in "yeah, so there is this people up north who herd reindeer, have drums with stickfigures on them, like blue clothing and apparently our government was a bit of dick to them sometime ago." 🤔

  • @willieboy9782
    @willieboy9782 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Last thing I expected was the thick inner city Dublin accent! Brilliant.
    Thanks a million champ!!

  • @kinok5927
    @kinok5927 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A similar video on the Basques is just waiting to be made by this channel.

  • @donovannewton8242
    @donovannewton8242 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The Sámi people, send representatives to the Dakota Access Pipeline Protest (DAPP). Which was the largest indigenous protest in North America.

  • @Hermit_mouse
    @Hermit_mouse 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So fascinating! This channel is always really good, but I think this my favorite episode so far. I would have never even heard of these people. And to think, a culture that stayed in complete harmony with the land and animals, and never over hunted or over foraged!

  • @Bambisgf77
    @Bambisgf77 ปีที่แล้ว

    The content is wonderfully informative, but hearing you pronounce the “th” sound is why I watch ☺️
    Big fan from SW Missouri 🇺🇸

  • @ibsern
    @ibsern 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice vid

  • @panntherapannthera4093
    @panntherapannthera4093 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I was born in the UK and just got my maternal DNA results showing the Sami people as my ancestors. I responded on a visceral level to their mythology, drumming and yoiks from this video and intend to explore my roots further. Thank you for such a well-made and contemporary video

    • @antifazisbonifaz6964
      @antifazisbonifaz6964 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Is that possible? Some sami came with the drakkars of vikings in the year 536 AD and settled in Great Britain? And his Dna can still bee traced? It sounds very dubious to me sorry. Perhaps a more prosaic, modern, normal explanation? (your great great grandmoder came from Samni to England as a cook for some rich diplomat who were in Finland? or some simmilar history)

    • @eclecticraeen
      @eclecticraeen 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@antifazisbonifaz6964my results said the same thing and also linked me to great Britain as well. I was confused by this because of how I look and the fact that I was linked to anywhere in between e everywhere else is indigenous Americas and A LOT of places in Africa. This confused me.. especially after researching I couldn't understand the link.. especially looking through family records I'd hoped to find maybe one side of family there and I guess in great Britain but my research was to no avail. This is the first video that has been this good with details so now I understand completely. ❤

    • @eclecticraeen
      @eclecticraeen 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@antifazisbonifaz6964I'm just a mix of the worlds indigenous 🥲

    • @antifazisbonifaz6964
      @antifazisbonifaz6964 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@eclecticraeen a very good lineage. You should be proud of it. Very remarkable 👍👍👍👏👏👏🙂👌👌

  • @princesspat5239
    @princesspat5239 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    i never knew i loved sami culture until now

  • @kapimanen819
    @kapimanen819 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank u cogito

  • @logancoolgamer-zn7yu
    @logancoolgamer-zn7yu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Anotha great video

  • @chelseap2071
    @chelseap2071 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Wow, it just struck me... How do they mark the passing of time in the winter when the sun is gone for months? How do you know when to sleep, when to wake up? By the stars maybe? Or do the auroras help somehow?
    Would be a wild experience.

    • @valkeakirahvi
      @valkeakirahvi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes, in the old days the Sámi were observing the stars to keep the time. It's also not completely dark during the day, it gets lighter, but the sun just doesn't rise above the horizon. Sometimes they also worked during the night in the moonlight.

    • @chelseap2071
      @chelseap2071 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@valkeakirahvi Fascinating! And beautiful. Thank you!

  • @Ignisan_66
    @Ignisan_66 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'm Slovak and the word Sami is funny to me cause in Slovak language "sami" means "alone". (Specifically "we alone", it is a plural nominative of the word "sám" which means "alone").

  • @JixieDye
    @JixieDye 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I lived in Hereford and actually got to see the Mappa Mundi. Wonderful experience and I absolutely recommend seeing it in person if you can

  • @koopi789
    @koopi789 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My grandma is from the north of sweden and she and my grandpa visit her hometown every year + the jokkmokk market, i went with them to the north for the first time last year to sarek/hiking trip n I loved it so much❤️ wish i could learn to speak some of the language

    • @RosieBrownie
      @RosieBrownie 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I live in north Sweden and we have a preserved old Sámi marketplace here and I work there at Christmas time and it's a beautiful nature reservation🥰❤💜🧡

  • @Lemwell7
    @Lemwell7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    In what sense are they indigenous in a way that other Europeans are not?
    Edit: as I understand it now, what’s notable is they are ‘indigenous minorities’. It’s not that they are more indigenous than the Norwegians, it’s that they are a minority community in Norway that is indigenous to Norway.

    • @oddmahttesara773
      @oddmahttesara773 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He actually try to explain that, the first people to come to Scandinavian after the ice melted are the ancestors of the Sami, yes it’s true that the language is from the east but that is just because the migrants from the east got integrated with the already existing people

    • @Lemwell7
      @Lemwell7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@oddmahttesara773 I saw that, that doesn’t really answer the question though (not to sound rude). In what sense are the Sami indigenous to northern Fennoscandia in a way the Swedes are not to southern Sweden?

    • @jael3177
      @jael3177 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@Lemwell7 They're not. Obviously, most European ethnic groups are Indigenous to their land, like the French in France. Indigenous is a term primarily used to refer to stateless minorities, but even then UN recognizes other European peoples as Indigenous, such as the Basque and Circassians. The Sami have just gotten notoriety because their history has been compared frequently to that of the Native Americans.

    • @BELZAURA
      @BELZAURA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The sami comes from Asia
      The other European groups come from east Europe or are the Basque who come from western Europe

    • @jokemon9547
      @jokemon9547 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@oddmahttesara773 Claiming Sami are indigenous on the basis that the proto-Samic speakers assimilated the scattered paleo Europeans in the region does not really make sense in my opinion. Sami are linguistically Finno Ugric and genetics wise are connected to other Finno Ugric speakers. Those scattered paleo Europeans left really nothing behind, except for a handful of loanwords in Samic languages. Even cultural and religious remnants seem to be pretty much nonexistent since the Sami religion had the same basic principles and roots of other religion practiced by Uralic speakers. Same goes for reindeer herding, that is a common thing among Uralic people too. Even the creation myth with the white heavenly reindeer is very similar to myths found among Ugric and Samoyedic people. They are not a continuation of the people who were there before, they are a continuation of the people who came out on top culturally and linguistically, which was Finno Ugric migrants into the region.

  • @mikoparolanto
    @mikoparolanto 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I pressed the bell and clicked on all. I need notifications from this channel.
    Hoping that you one day cover Esperanto. :)

  • @sepnyte9422
    @sepnyte9422 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    3:31 I love how informative this video is but also the suttle humor lol

  • @annehall2591
    @annehall2591 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That was so educational and interesting! I was aware of the Sami people, I just never new their history. It seems wherever there were indigenous people; European, American, Australian, Canadian and whoever else fits under that umbrella, felt the need to take over and try to obliterate a culture. It is so sad. Especially , when these cultures have so much to offer and add to us as a whole. Thank you for sharing this!

  • @kayakat1869
    @kayakat1869 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    How did I miss this? I suggested it. 😂 Thank you so much.

  • @kramp154
    @kramp154 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Absolutly beautifull art

  • @CommentLikeDescribe
    @CommentLikeDescribe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love these peeps.

  • @evolv.e
    @evolv.e 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    4:00 “the most metal of pancakes”
    I lol’d at that. Good one. 💀🤘🏼

  • @jenelaina5665
    @jenelaina5665 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Never this early so thanks again for doing another indigenous culture video!

    • @thewhovianhippo7103
      @thewhovianhippo7103 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      thats mostly what he dose

    • @jenelaina5665
      @jenelaina5665 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thewhovianhippo7103 For Indigenous cultures that still exist, my count is 2 of the last 11 (Maori then San).

    • @thewhovianhippo7103
      @thewhovianhippo7103 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jenelaina5665 well I'm gonna guess you mean small indigenous is small cultures so yes I take back what I said

    • @thewhovianhippo7103
      @thewhovianhippo7103 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hope he dose the Ainu

    • @CogitoEdu
      @CogitoEdu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      There are more videos like this on the way :D

  • @victor9sur768
    @victor9sur768 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    the most confusing thing to me on the Mappa Mundi is the two fecking Wombles bashing each other with axes, they're just above the Sami skier

    • @charlykatbat4468
      @charlykatbat4468 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      really? That's the most confusing thing about the Mappa Mundi? Honestly I couldn't even pick one single thing, maybe a "Top 20" or something like that haha

  • @migspeculates
    @migspeculates ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey can you make a video about Badjao/Sama people in these series? They are interesting as well.

  • @markdenney7977
    @markdenney7977 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was very lucky as an Englishman, to have lived with a Sami family on the island of Kvaløya, close to Trømso for 2 years. Really was an amazing experience. I have travelled a lot, but that was the most memorable time.